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Episode 12 – Susan Larson – A Language Is A Dialect With An Army
This week’s guest is Dr. Susan Larson. A researcher and writer by profession, she currently works as an education specialist for the US Army Minneapolis Recruiting Battalion. She has previously been employed by the Department of Homeland Security, a researcher on the international “Finland-Swedish Women and Immigration” project, and an author and editor for Encyclopedia Britannica.
Previously, Larson was the executive director of the Swedish Council of America; executive director of the University of Minnesota Center for Scandinavian Studies Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch and the founder of the Finnish Studies Program at UC Berkeley, where she held various program director, instructor and research positions.
Join us for a broad discussion on topics ranging from the social and cultural programs in the Scandinavian countries to the value of education in the military.
For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode:
Minneapolis – Saint Paul
Scandinavia
AFS
Swedish Speaking Finns
The Putney School
Beloit College
US Mining Nicaragua’s Harbors
Scandinavian Seminar
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Greenland
Iceland
Faroe Islands
Åland Islands
Nordic Countries
Baltic Sea Region
Estonia
Finno-Ugric
Lithuania
Latvia
A Language Is A Dialect With An Army
Norway and the European Union
Interest and Identity: Finland, Norway and the European Union
History of Solidarity
Taxation in Sweden
Danish Emergency Doctor Service
Health Care in Denmark
Lægevagten
Kautokeino
Sámi People
Access To Health Care in Scandinavian Countries
Health Care in Finland
Encyclopedia Britannica – Finland
Benecol
What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?
Television System in Finland
Denmark’s Immigration Issue
Armed Forces in Scandinavia
UW Madison – Department of Scandinavian Studies
Fulbright
Hagar Olsson
Bashert
Ny Tid
Finnish Radio Stations
Riga
January 1991 Events in Latvia
John Gumperz
Linguistic Anthropology
Johnny Olsen
Richard Buxbaum
Finnish Courses at Berkeley
Sirpa Tuomainen
University of Helsinki
ORIAS
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
National Endowment for the Humanities
MacArthur Fellows Program
Finland, Minnesota
Swedish Council of America
IKEA
Nokia
Saab
ABBA
Roxette
Björk
The Sugarcubes
Ingmar Bergman
Lars von Trier
Lukas Moodysson
Thomas Vinterberg
Dogme 95
Johan Vilhelm Snellman
Sweden Finns
Department of Homeland Security
Historic Fort Snelling
Zebulon Pike
Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota State Arts Board
US Army – Minneapolis Recruiting Battalion
Montgomery GI Bill
ConAP
ROTC
OCS
March2Success
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
Stalinism
Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Whisperers: Private Life In Stalin’s Russia by Orlando Figes
GoArmy
Finnish Radio – YLE.FI
SR International – Radio Sweden
Norwegian Radio – NRK.NO
Information Junk
I appreciate the info about March2Success & will keep it till my kids are older (hopefully the program will still be around then.) Dr. Larson seems to have come to her current profession by a rather convoluted path, and people like that make the best guests. It’s also nice to hear some encouragement about learning a new language for us non-teenage types, that it’s not impossible and we have different strengths we can use to learn.
(I’ve done my usual promoting of the new ep…it’s good to hear your listening audience is growing. Shows there are people with good taste out there.)